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Originally Posted by thefourthtower
One city firing on all cylinders is Regina, which saw its unemployment rate drop to 3.5 per cent, the lowest in the country. Saskatoon’s unemployment rate rose to 5.5 per cent.
[B]“If you are from Regina, everything is fine,” Elliott said.
“(Regina is) a little island of prosperity.”
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Yes, North Central Regina is a veritable paradise of prosperity. Its frustrating that, amidst all of the chest-thumping and back-slapping, newspaper headline writers keep forgetting that Saskatchewan (and Regina in particular) is home to several of the most disfunctional and impoverished urban neighbourhoods in Canada.